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Image by Todd Barnard via Flickr Google has given a face lift and updated the layout and look to its Android Market website which  is a marketplace for Android developers to sell applications developed for phones running Android OS . Cosmetically, it’s a tad better than what it use to be , but it still looks very sparse and hideous  in comparison to Apple’s iTunes. Search option is [...]

Image via CrunchBase With Developers, users and product companies preferring Android, iPhone and even Blackberry OS, Windows Mobile software is getting royally ignored, even in its updated and glorified revision – Windows Phone 7.  The latest to join this list is Skype who has  revealed that they don’t have any development plans for bringing their popular Skype Mobile  service to [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Swedish entertainment company Voddler, which offers paid video-on-demand service which offers movies and TV programming has launched an free to download Android app for its advertisement funded movie service. Until this release on Android OS , the streaming TV and movie service, which is available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, was only available [...]

Froyo – Google Android OS’s 2.2 version seems to have more up its sleeves than what we reported earlier. While developers, Android users and followers wait patiently for Google to announce Android OS’s next major update, more new details on its features continue to trickle in. Google is expected to show off Android 2.2 Froyo update at the upcoming Google I/O conference [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google will be releasing the latest version of its mobile operating system Android  later this month. The latest release of Android – 2.2 is christened Froyo. Google is expected to announce or release the Froyo update at the upcoming Google IO conference on May 16-18 at Google Headquarters. Android enthusiast’s and leading community androidpolice.com [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you think just because iPhone is still every where it tops the sales chart – think again. For the first time since its launch, Android-based smart phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter  of 2010.  Android  continues to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market, it moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, [...]

Google added a fully featured GPS satellite navigation service to its Google Maps application for mobile phones running its Android operating system 1.6 and higher, including the Nexus One. Google Maps Navigation which is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance which was until now available only in the United States on Android phones. Speaking at the launch Steve Lee, [...]

Image via CrunchBase Running Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone, what many geeks have been dreaming for over a year is a reality now thanks to David Wang, better known as “planetbeing” , who is  a member of the a group called the  iPhone Dev Team, Planetbeing sent a Twitter update and uploaded a video Android running on iPhone ( click on the link for the video) [...]

Image via CrunchBase All those whining and complaining about lack of good  graphics and high quality gaming experience in Android phones will soon become history. Google has paved the way for  iPhone-like 3D games on  Android handsets running 1.5 or higher, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard through its latest Android Native Development Kit r3. It is offered [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, Orange and Intel announced their strategic partnership to develop Orange multimedia services for Intel’s MeeGo platform. MeeGo is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel where both companies decided to develop a new hybrid mobile platform based on Nokia’s Maemo platform and Intel’s Mobilin platform. The announcement from Orange gives a great boost to the future [...]